Kanye West Lashes Out at Jimmy Kimmel on Twitter in All-Caps E-Soliloquy

Kanye West doesn’t tweet all that often, but, when he does, it’s typically something of a deluge, as he’ll reel off a successive series of tweets deriding the state of fashion or outlining his creative ambitions. Last night marked such an occasion as Kanye posted ten straight tweets targeting. . . late night host Jimmy Kimmel. What would Kanye have against Jimmy? Well, it seems Kanye was upset with a video Kimmel aired earlier this week in which two young children acted out part of Kanye’s recent BBC interview with Zane Lowe (in which Kanye said, “I’m the number-one rock star on the planet,” among other quotable claims).

“JIMMY KIMMEL IS OUT OF LINE TO TRY AND SPOOF IN ANY WAY THE FIRST PIECE OF HONEST MEDIA IN YEARS,” is how Kanye’s diatribe kicked off, and it got progressively more intense from there. In his successive tweets, he managed to work in references to the paparazzi clamoring to score a shot of North West, taunt Kimmel for (we’re going to do some serious euphemizing here) not doing as well as him with the ladies, lambaste Kimmel for his “crazy” face, threaten to mock Kimmel in a spoof of his own (potentially about Kimmel’s amorous past with Ben Affleck, though, Kanye noted, “#NODISRESPECTTOBENAFFLECK”), and posit that “SARAH SILVERMAN IS A THOUSAND TIMES FUNNIER THAN YOU AND THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS IT!!!”

Kanye even gave the internet a headstart on memecreation, ending his screed with two macro images based on some of the tweets.

Kimmel responded to a number of these tweets in self-deprecating, non-aggressive fashion (“I swear, @kanyewest one more of these I WILL unfollow you #warning #Goshdarnit”). On his show, he addressed the tweets in his monologue, explaining that Kanye had called him an hour earlier to express his displeasure and to demand that Kimmel apologize for the sketch, which Kimmel said he believes was “innocuous,” saying he “doesn’t understand why he’s angry.”

Understandably, given the reveal a few weeks ago that that viral twerking video turned out to be a Kimmel-orchestrated prank, some questioned if we were all being duped by Kanye and Kimmel here. Kimmel tweeted “this is not a prank, I promise (unless it’s being played on me)” last night, and he did appear a bit shaken up when discussing it on his show, but it definitely still seems at least a possibility.

Meanwhile, perhaps the most salient reward for all of us here is this “#NODISRESPECTTOBENAFFLECK” hashtag Kanye has spawned, which you should expect to see all over Twitter. . . at least until the Breaking Bad finale airs in 48 hours.

Josh DuboffJosh Duboff is a VF.com staff writer, based in New York, who covers entertainment and culture.